This phenomenon, where people in India seem to always find a way to muddle along somehow or the other, has slowly entered management-speak as jugaad, a curiously Indian way of getting things done. Venture capitalists and management gurus have praised this approach of doing more with less, but jugaad is more an outcome of limited access to capital, resources and infrastructure, than it is innovation.
The jugaad myth - Pragati. An innovation deficit has seized us, and we are blind to the fall that awaits us as we celebrate “jugadability” as an achievement.
